Bound Quote by Edward McKendree Bounds

“Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer.”

— E.M. Bounds

Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent…

— Charles Bent

Prayer is the preview of God's action.

— Mark Dever

Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.

— Henry Blackaby

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

— Simone Weil

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

— Marianne Williamson

Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply…

— Gerhard Tersteegen

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

— Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

— John Stott

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

— John Stott

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

— Oswald Chambers